So I forgot that Ao3 makes it so that you need an invite to join and they are telling if I’ll get the invite AUGUST 4th. So. I’m posting my lesbian pirate x selkie romance here lol.
I’ve now written two chapter of my lesbian monsterfuckin book between a pirate and selkie and I dare say. It fucking rocks. Might just fuck around and post the chapters on Ao3 or something and then force feed you guys it because why not
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I’m getting back into writing fiction (my BA rejoices) and what better way to get back in the saddle than writing a lesbian romance between a drunk pirate king and a mean proud selkie who is a vessel for souls who have been lost at sea?? 🦭🏴☠️👩❤️💋👩
WOAHHOHOHO
lesbians you say?
pirates AND selfies you say?
A VESSEL FOR SOULS YOU SAY??
Fun fact for you: selkies are sometimes thought to be the reincarnations of lost souls at sea which is the hardest goddamn lore I’ve ever heard 🦭
I’m getting back into writing fiction (my BA rejoices) and what better way to get back in the saddle than writing a lesbian romance between a drunk pirate king and a mean proud selkie who is a vessel for souls who have been lost at sea?? 🦭🏴☠️👩❤️💋👩
Can you tell I really like polls? I am, if anything, democratic (except when I’m not lol). Since finishing the last blog post I’m a bit burnt out so I leave it to you all to help me decide what direction to go (I have an feeling I know what’s going to win already but let’s see anyway…)
If you’re just now finding me out, I write about the history of and science behind monster fucking. You can read my research here on my website the monstrous desire study, including my blog which talks at length about my research thus far.
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please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts
Lmfao I absolutely feel like I’ve gotten worse and I’m writing nonfiction it makes no sense
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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access
Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit
- Monster Theory - Really great anthology to start with, especially the first reading, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's famous "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" which is a personal favorite
- The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - A general SF/F journal, but there are definitely a lot of great monster theory and gothic horror readings sprinkled throughout. Consider taking a look at Veronica Hollinger's "The Vampire and/as Alien," the special issue on Dracula, and Faye J. Ringel's "Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast," among others
- Werewolf Histories edited by Willem Blécourt - Phenomenal anthology on werewolf scholarship, especially if you're interested in the connections between werewolves and witchcraft and/or witch trials in Early Modern Europe
- Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam - Of interest to those who are interested in the connection between the gothic and gender (among other topics). Halberstam has written extensively on both
- The Journal of Dracula Studies - Exactly what it sounds like.
- Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural - Another journal, which focuses on the connections between witchcraft and occultism, monsters, demonology, and the like.
- Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" - An absolutely landmark piece of writing on Frankenstein and the transgender (and in particular the transfeminine) experience; one of my favorite pieces of academic writing of all time.
- Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology - Another solid monster theory anthology
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene - A really, really good anthology about the ecological gothic that I cannot recommend enough. As a known werewolf guy I especially like the piece "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus" by Carla Freccero
- The Vampire Lectures by Lawrence Rickels - So many vampires
- Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader - Another anthology, I in particular recommend Rosalind Sibielski's "Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts" in this one.
- "The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein" by Jolene Zigarovich - Definitely a good read if you enjoyed the Stryker piece earlier; it's a more general survey of the idea but might give you some ideas for further reading
- TransGothic in Literature and Culture - A whole anthology of works on transgender identity and the gothic!
- Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion - Not to be confused with the other similarly named anthology earlier, this one is on various modern perspectives on the gothic.
- "Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Werewolf Renaissance" by David A. Shyovitz - Stand-alone article but really really interesting
- Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston & Katherine Park - Incredible volume that gets into several different subjects surrounding the fantastical in the medieval and early modern eras, monsters among them. The same authors have written some other fantastic work, such as "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and England" and I honestly would recommend any of their work.
- Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters - A more anthropology focused volume, I particularly like Rozanna Lilley's "Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters—(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood"
- Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations - Another anthology, this time with a historical perspective
This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!
I will absolutely be looking into all these books omg 😳
Me, shoddily finishing my gay Dracula blog post despite depression walloping my ass because I told myself if I finished it I could treat myself with the horny tennis movie where Zendaya bullies two twinks
Hello! I’ve been lurking here for a while, and just wanted to say that, as someone who is also deeply curious about human sexual desires, I’m very happy to have stumbled upon your blog. I really admire the way you’ve fully committed to pursuing something you’re clearly passionate about, and it’s super cool to see this subject treated as a topic of research that’s as valid as any other, instead of some scary mysterious thing that ought to remain in the shadows. So, thank you for sharing, and I hope you have a lovely day/night :)
This is such a sweet thing to say 🥺🥺🥺 thank you! For how pervasive erotic monsters are throughout all history you’d think there would be more writing on it academically but there’s NONE! Hopefully my study will change that. Anyway welcome to the chaos 🤗😈 I’m very happy to have you here
It’s funny: in my research, as I’ve strove to find a cohesive ethnography for the monster fucker community, I’ve realized a few things.
First, I’m not sure that a cohesive ethnography exists period within any community. My first study in my masters program was about studying the Dark Romance genre, and it proved just that. It was a community that was united by a love for the genre, but beyond that things were so variable especially about what they liked and why they liked it.
The same is said about the monster fucking community. Bookstagram/Booktok monster fuckers are very different than say Tumblr Monsterfuckers. There are overlaps of course, united by a love of monsters, but even that is contentious as people all argue about if something is monster enough to label oneself as a monster fucker.
And the thing is, this ironically aligns with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture (Seven Theses) in which he says: “History, like individuality, subjectivity, gender, and culture, is composed of a multitude of fragments, rather than of smooth epistemological wholes. Some fragments will be collected here and bound temporarily together to form a loosely integrated net—or, better, an unassimilated hybrid, a monstrous body.”
Kinda neat, isn’t it?
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I don’t know why I didn’t think of this but it’s so good. New book title from @htmelle: “The Monster Fucker Manifesto”; what do we think gang? I think it’s hilarious especially as a communist x monster fucker 🤣
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we should start making zines about cool research papers
*SHAMELESS MONSTERFUCKING RESEARCH PLUG*
Not a zine but my blog is about cool monster fucking research and history 🤓 you can learn about the long history of monster fucking around the world from demon copulation in Europe during witch craft accusations or the history of erotic tentacle art in Japan OR check out my data from over 2,200 respondents about why people wanna fuck monsters. My agent and I are currently in the process of submitting the soon to be book to publishers (!!) so check it out
Monsterfucker Monday Poll 😈📊
Welcome to Monsterfucker Monday polls. Each Monday, I’m gonna strive to put out a poll asking questions to Monsterfuckers about all things monster fucking.
Why?
Because it’s all part of my study on all things monsterfucking! And collecting data is the name of the game. So the more answers we get the better! Reblog Reblog Reblog 🫵
I’ve decided every week (probably Mondays) I’m gonna post monster fucker polls. Call em monster fucker Mondays, idk, maybe that’s too millennial of me to name it but until I think of something else, we ride.
I don’t have anyone else to complain about this to beyond my therapist and my parents, but my book (yes this very study!!) has been on submission to editors for a little over 8 weeks and I haven’t heard anything back yet and the whole thing makes me sick to my stomach with anxiety. For the love of GOD any news from editors would be better than this looming silence even rejections because it would mean they at least read it 😮💨 losing my mind over this
#publishing is a nightmare#publishing#please for the love of god will someone give me an answer?#monstrousdesire#monstrousdesirestudy#terat0philliac#monster fucker#writers on tumblr#writers#nonfiction writing#research writing#research#writing#monster fudger#monster lover#too afraid to manifest because I’m also superstitious that if I want something that badly#it won’t happen
Sometimes I remember I have a degree in creative writing, specifically fiction, and I remember I’m capable of writing poetry when the mood moves me. Like spring days that are so beautiful 🌸🍃
On the one hand, I would really like my work to take off so that lazy publishers (no ur not lazy baby aha ur perfect you should publish me 🫣) can finally fucking see me as a valid project to invest in.
On the other hand, I don’t know if I’m cut out for internet fame. People on the internet are very silly (to put it mildly) and I have very little patience for it all. I just wanna talk about the history of monster fucking and make friends (to my moots ur beautiful and perfect).